To be pissed off that our neighbour is mowing the lawn right now at 9pm?

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Kids have just been woken up, he started about 15mins ago, currently doing hos section of the communal green space outside, I'm guessing he's then going to move on to his front and back gardens. It's a petrol one too so effing noisy!

Yanbu op. My neighbour did the same the other day, started mowing the back garden at about 9pm when I was trying to get the dcs to sleep. I wouldn't have minded as much if he'd been working but he hadn't, I know this because he was lounging around all afternoon in the sun while I was mowing our lawn.

Weekends and school holidays aren't so bad but when you're trying to get kids to sleep in this weather so they're up for school the next day and someone starts making a racket at that time it takes the piss. Fair enough people have to work but have some consideration for others and do noisy gardening on your day off. Dh has come home at 6pm from a 10 hour working day in his physical job and cut our grass straight away so it's not being done too late and disturbing all the kids that live either side of us.

It's grass that needs cutting, it's not a major problem to leave it a couple of days till the weekend.

YANBU Op...we were kept awake last night by some twat doing DIY (think intermittent hammering so no chance of nodding off) til 10.30 last night. They obviously decided 10.30 was an "acceptable" time to work until (not if you get up at 5.30am for work!).
I kept my mouth shut during the DIY but when that ceased and another neighbour started playing the DRUMS in the back garden I did have a fishwife moment and yelled...it worked and DS and I slept finally...

Amazes me how many people think that's acceptable behaviour rather than downright thoughtless.

When I lived in Texas, the only time of day to mow the lawn apart from the crack dawn when you'd rather not piss off the neighbors in the summer was in the evening due to the heat. Somehow children survive the childhoods there.

Yesterday was really hot, to be fair. I know we relaxed our bedtime rules because it was too warm to go to sleep too early.